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New Hampshire Receives Nearly $4 Million to Help Homeless

By Mark Bevis on Tuesday, November 20, 2001.

The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today it is granting more than 1 billion dollars in assistance to the nation’s homeless.
The funds are earmarked for housing and support services for hundreds of thousands of people across the country who have no place to live.
One of the grant recipients is Manchester-based Families in Transition.
Maureen Beauregard is the organizations’ president.
She told NHPR’s Mark Bevis the news.

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Holiday Cooking, New England style

By Laura Knoy on Tuesday, November 20, 2001.

'Tis the season to eat oyster stew, roast turkey and pumpkin pie. We?ll talk about new and old favorites. Also, what foods tell us about our culture and history. Laura's guest is food, fiction and travel writer Claire Hopley. Her new book is "New England Cooking: Seasons & Celebrations."

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Concerns about capacity at the Bethlehem landfill

By Rebecca Brown on Tuesday, November 20, 2001.

A controversial landfill in the North Country town of Bethlehem is under fire again. The commercial North Country Environmental Services Landfill takes trash from about a hundred New Hampshire communities?..and from several other states. A local citizens? group, together with the Conservation Law Foundation, says that?s more trash than the state allows. NHPR correspondent Rebecca Brown reports.

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Stage Secrets of a Special Effects Master

By John Walters on Tuesday, November 20, 2001.

Gregory Meeh is a master of special effects, and partner in the special effects company Jauchem and Meeh. He is also a New Hampshire native who divides his time between New York City, and an old Shaker farm in Canterbury. Greg is credited in such stage productions as "Phantom of The Opera," "Jekyll and Hyde," "Tommy," "Ragtime," and "Miss Saigon." He has worked on television shows like "Sex in the City" and "Law and Order." Join John Walters on the Front Porch while Gregory shares his experiences, as well as some tricks of the trade.

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Franklin Who?

By Dan Gorenstein on Tuesday, November 20, 2001.

Friday is the 197th birthday of Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States. The annual wreath laying ceremony at the cemetery on North State Street in Concord was held today to accommodate a 5th grade class from the Walker School. As NHPR�s Dan Gorenstein reports, the only president to come from the Granite State, is sometimes admired, sometimes loathed, but mostly forgotten.

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